MRN President Kitty McIlroy testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on July 26. The hearing addressed “Improving Capacity for Critical Mineral Recovery through Electronic Waste Recycling and Reuse.” During her testimony, McIlroy provided MRN’s recommendation on improving electronics recovery at the national level as well as context on what the public sector has been facing over the past 10 years with electronic recycling. Read more here.
Recycled Glass: Trash or Treasure – Webinar recap. Being both expensive to ship and of relatively low value compared to, for example, aluminum, glass has been a difficult material for recycling programs to manage. On July 25, Susan Davidson of
Fairfax County’s Solid Waste Management Program, and Patrick Grasso of
Urban Mining Industries, shared what their respective organizations are doing to make glass recycling sustainable and cost-effective.
Listen to webinar here.
The Foodservice Packaging Institute released a study on levels of food residue in residential recycling streams. The study compared food residue in foodservice packaging vs. food contact packaging items.
Download the summary today.